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Noted expert selects 70 "short" puzzles. The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and 67 more. Solutions included.
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Fun book to bring on vacation
This is a must bring when you go on vacation and just need some time to chill at the beach or at the end of a busy day, in between day and evening plans. If you happen to be interviewing in the technical fields you may run across interviewers that ask brain teasers. You'll find many of those problemsin this book. For technical interviewing this makes a good study guide. I have collected quite a few puzzle books and was never fully satisfied with any of them until I heard about the authoer and decided to pick up one his books. The puzzles are all differnt from each other, ranging from word problems to geometry problems.The solutions given are very complete and actually take up the largest emphasis.

Very good puzzles book
I didn't expect much from a 5-dollar book, but I was pleasantly surprised. Other reviewers have already covered the quality of the book, so I won't go into those details, but I have the following suggestion for you.

Store this item in your wishlist and use it when you need a filler item to qualify for free shipping.

Highly recommend the book.

Don't waste your money
While the puzzles are intriguing and thought-provoking, the solutions don't explain how the answers were reached.I was highly disappointed.

Great bathroom reading!
Very nice.I like the old-fashioned approach (I think the author has been writing books like this since the 1960s) and the problems are interesting and varied; most of them you can do in your head (hence an ideal "bathroom book") but some do make you break out the pencil and paper just to double-check.Highly recommended for interested people who studied Maths to around age 18 or beyond.

Good for warming up your brain.
Nice collection of puzzles with varying difficulties, which do not require any special knowledge of mathematics. ... Read more

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Written to help children ages three through seven who seem to have lost their math confidence, Count on Math is a complete guide for teachers and parents which offers math activities designed to teach math concepts to children sequentially, using everyday materials. Line drawings. ... Read more

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great buy
great, great book.i was nervous about having to learn to teach a new math program i was not familiar with but this book makes it so easy. i love the ideas, vocabulary words, simple format etc.highly recommend to any preschool teacher

Wonderful book for preschool
This is a great book for someone needing more ideas/activities for preschoolers learning math concepts.

Awesome resource
I love this book and cannot wait to start using this in my classroom this year. One of the best resource books I have seen. It is well organized, lots of fun ideas, items needed are readily available, and very hands-on child directed.

math is FUN!!!
This curriculum book is packed with fun, concrete experience with math concepts.I find the progression of concepts, with the next chapter building upon discoveries made in the previous chapter very helpful and beneficial. All of the activities utilize the manipulation of real things (leaves, pennies, buttons, water, salt...)All the materials are easy to obtain and anything that needs to be made in advance, a ring toss game for example, is quick and easy and uses houshold items, empty 2L bottles and paper plates cut into rings.Each chapter ends with a Home Connections page which can be copied and sent home to families.It outlines the concepts covered in the chapter, highlights vocabulary words and offers ways the concepts covered in the classroom can be reinforced at home. The "Using This Book" section offers a table for what ages to cover what material and for how long, wich i found slightly odd. Let your own child/children progress at a speed and to a level that is appropriate for them.

Excellent
I love this book!The activities are terrific.The information is explained very well and is presented in a clear, fun format.My four year old and I are going through this book and doing the various projects and we are both having a great time! ... Read more

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Continuing the successful Scholastic "100" workbook series, this product provides 100, full-color, full-spread math activities that kids need to cover by and in first grade.
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Great book for Pre-K
My daughter loved this book in Pre-K, but the math she is doing in public school kindergarten is much more advanced.
I see a lot of posts from homeschooling moms and I'm shocked to read that their 6 year old children are only this far when it comes to math.
However as someone who was home schooled, I shouldn't be surprised.

Big and Colorful
Fun activities with big and colorful illustrations...This book covers practically everything a Kindergarten and 1st grader will learn and should know.A great supplement tool to use at home.Out of all the activity books my five year old has, this book is the only book he will pick to do on his own. I strongly recommend this book and the "100 Words Kids Need To Read By 1st Grade". I gave this product a four, b/c some of the activities lack detailed explanations.

Great for kids
My daughter , a prescholer has loved this exercises and it's the funniest way to learn math, it starts very easily and gradually goes to a difficult level. It contains some stickers, too.

Bought for my grandaughter
My grandaughter was homeschooled for Kindergarten but will start first grade soon.She LOVED working in this book.It helped her acquire the foundation for many basic skills.

Colorful and Fun Workbook
I agree with the previous reviewer.We are homeschooling this year and I have bought a number of workbooks for my daughter.This is the most eye-catching of them all.

My daughter considers this book fun and I agree with her.It is well written and thought out. The graphics are highly appealling.My child is excited by this wookbook and the new words she is learning to read and write. ... Read more

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200 Instant Kid-Pleasing Activities That Build Essential Early Math Skills for Circle Time, Transition Time‹or Any Time!
Super-Fun Math Every Time!
Quick, super-fun activities reinforce counting, graphing, adding, subtracting, and other math skills. ... Read more

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Time Saver ~ easy to prepare
The schools are pushing math skills very early on. It is important for our children to beadequately prepared . This book has great ideas and is easy to use ~a good investment! ... Read more

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Hours of good fun are in store for kids as they explore early learning math skills such as counting, sequencing, numerical recognition, pattern identification, manipulating shapes, and measuring--with plenty of play mixed in. Eighty noncompetitive games and participatory activities, plus nature, art, craft, and food experiences introduce the excitement of numbers and their place in daily life. ... Read more

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Builds math intelligence
I'm so impressed with all the activities in this book.I am not just picking and choosing activities to do with my preschool-aged daughter, we are pretty much doing every activity.And she is really learning to count.I love that all the activities are interactive and conversational.All areas of intelligence are included: science (count animal footprints or bird calls), interpersonal (find four ways we are alike), etc.All learning styles are also met: hands-on (make numbers from clay, make a counting wand...), auditory (includes some counting songs), and even olfactory (is that a learning style?Not sure, but this book has kids making scratch-and-sniff numbers using spices).

Very easy and fun book
This book is really fun for young kids.It's an easy way to learn about math.Great for parents or preschool teachers.Most of these activities can be done with minimal "stuff".Very cute book!

Fantastic First Math Curriculum
I purchased this book four years ago for our child when she was a preschooler. This book is ideal for those children who like hands on learning activities and games. The book utilizes activities and games to teach mathematical concepts in a fun and engaging format. I would follow this book up with the Singapore Earlybird Math books 1A-2B, then proceed to MCP Kindergarten Math.

Full of ideas!
We love this book.The activities are simple to prepare and easy for my 5-year old to understand. This is a great help in practicing beginners' math concepts with her.

Great source for an Early Childhood Curriculum.
Great source for an Early Childhood Curriculum. This book gave me wonderful ideas on teaching little ones to counting and math. This book helped me plan lessons for my home toddler/preschool daycare. This book is a MUST HAVE for home daycare providers and home schooling parents. ... Read more

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Move on Maths! offers versatile, tried and tested maths resources for 7-9 years for you to use in the way that is most suitable for your pupils. The units give you flexible ideas, rather then prescriptive lessons and support the Renewed Primary Framework for mathematics. The PNS Framework objectives are clearly shown for every sheet, followed by unit learning outcomes, so it’s easy to choose the right worksheet to suit you and your children’s needs.

• Contains more than fifty stand-alone photocopiable units in four strands to be used in class or as homework tasks, complete with teachers' notes and answers to help your planning

• Broadens understanding of four key numeracy strands from the Renewed Primary Framework: Using and applying mathematics; Understanding Shape;  Measuring; Handling Data
• Contains a bank of short, sharp exercises, problems and fun starter activities and games to kick start your maths lesson with the whole class
• Includes challenges to extend your gifted and talented learners or early finishers

• Covers PNS Framework objectives and learning outcomes for a two year span, Year 3 and 4

• Ideal for mixed-age classes

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In The Sticky Problem of Parallelogram Pancakes fourth and fifth graders solve a variety of developmentally appropriate problems involving number sense, geometry, measurement, algebra, data, and probability. Each problem links directly to state and national standards and increases students’ capabilities with foundational and computational principles. The Math with a Laugh series reinforces basic skills and improves retention in class, over the summer, or at home. Ruopp’s teaching notes provide answers and help you reinforce the concepts behind the problems, then extend them into other mathematical learning.

Math with a Laugh brings together math practice and comedy-some would say for the first time-offering students and teachers funny and functional skills-development experiences. Longtime math teacher Faye Nisonoff Ruopp provides problems carefully crafted to help children strengthen their mathematical thinking. Faye’s former student, star comedian Paula Poundstone, sets the problems within funny stories so entertaining to read and solve that students will become immersed in the mathematics. ... Read more

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PERFECT FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS, CARE GIVERS AND PARENTS ALIKE, this reality based book provides a wide selection of activities and investigations for young children.Multi-level activities introduce increasingly advanced skills for preschool through third grade and have been designed to promote mathematical reasoning, communication, and problem solving skills that excite young learners. ... Read more

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Interesting, enjoyable, and challenging activities to help teach higher level mathematics
Here is a collection of math activities that support the NCTM standards and encourage problem-solving, high-level reasoning, and analytical skills—and are stimulating, interesting, and fun for students. The book includes activities covering geometry, measurement, algebra, statistics and probability, trigonometry, calculus, and more. Featuring a complete answer key to each section, this resource will be a valuable addition to a high school instructor's everyday materials.

Judith A. Muschla and Gary Robert Muschla (East Brunswick, NJ), both teachers of mathematics, have coauthored numerous resources for teachers, including The Math Teacher's Book of Lists (0-1325-5910-2) and Hands-On Math Projects with Real-Life Applications (0-1303-2015-3). ... Read more

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Good, but not games
As previous reviewers have noted, this is a book of worksheets, not games.Those hoping for math games should look elsewhere, such as Family Math : The Middle School Years, Algebraic Reasoning and Number Sense.That being said, this is a good book to use for extra practice and/or review of skills.It is well organized, so it is easy to find a worksheet on, for instance, the order of operations.I use it frequently in my tutoring of jr. high and high school students, a group for which it is often difficult to find materials.

Fabulous reproducibles!
Great activities to review skills and motivate students.Easily implemented into the daily curriculum.

Excellent
I purchased for my girlfriend during her student teaching. She was able to use alot of the information in this book to bring the fun back to math. It helped her motivate the students.

Not Games
I like this book and highly recommend anything by the Muschla's.But this is a book of worksheets, not games.It does contain entertaining and challenging worksheets that are useful in the classroom.I more often will use their Algebra Teacher's Activity Kit or the Geometry Teacher's Activity Kit.

Not really games, but still great!
These are not "games" like you might imagine. They are simply interesting math problems. It's a great resource! ... Read more

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This book provides an essential resource for teachers, and for parents keen to try practical maths tasks with their children at home. The book contains illustrated biographies of ten influential mathematicians, plus clear explanations of their theories and ideas. Photocopiable activities focus on problem solving and investigation, while differentiated activities support and extend groups within the class. A key vocabulary is available for use during maths lessons, plus a list of resources required to carry out tasks. There are links to the aims of the NNS for KS2, although the book can also be used effectively at KS3. Cross-curricular links, include the history of ancient civilisations, science, philosophy and astronomy. ... Read more

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Why should your school have a Family Math Night?
- Help students learn essential math concepts
- Give parents a chance to serve as models of motivation, persistence and competence
- Promote math success in a supportive setting

With its step-by-step directions and suggestions for both teachers and parents, this book takes the worry out of planning and conducting a Family Math Night at your school.

How does Family Math Night work?
- Invite parents to accompany their children to school for an evening event.
- Arrange a series of tables (“stations”) in a large room or in several classrooms.
- As shown in this book, prepare materials – easy-to-find and inexpensive -- and set up an activity at each station.
- Parents and students visit some or all stations and engage in the activities together.
- Teachers encourage participation, offer assistance, and promote “math talk”.

This book contains 40 engaging and inspiring activities, organized by grade level, along with –

For the teacher –
- list of materials
- helpful hints
- connections to math standards

- For the parent and student –
- description of activity and directions
- questions parents can ask
- challenges

The activities in this book align with the NCTM content and process standards for pre-kindergarten through grade 5.

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Everything you need to get started.
This book contains everything you need to pull together a Family Math Night...reproducible directions for each station, challenge activities and parent take-home directions.All you need to complete the task of preparing for Family Math Night is a location, supplies (dice, dominoes, stopwatches, etc.) and an excited group of teachers to help lead each station.At my school, we had funds to purchase a few supplies for each family to take home with them (dominoes, flashcards, mini-clocks, dice).It allowed the practice to continue at home.This book was a great starting point, but I will need to continue to gather new ideas as we continue to have more Family Math Nights.

Family Math Night
I'm planning a family math night at my school for the first time and I think this book will be great. It has everything I need to make the night a success. ... Read more

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Here is a super collection of over 650 ready-to-use math starters that get kids quickly focused and working on math as soon as they enter your classroom! Perfect for any math curriculum, these high-interest problems spark involvement in the day's lesson, help students build skills, and allow you to handle daily management tasks without wasting valuable instructional time.For easy use, all of the math-starter problems are printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" lay-flat format for photocopying and organized into two parts: Part I, "Making Math Starters a Part of Your Program" gives you practical suggesions for implementing math starters in your teaching routine, and Part II, "Math Starters" provides six collections of math-starter problems related to six major areas of secondary math, including: Whole Numbers: Theory & Operations; Fractions, Decimals & Percents; Measurement; Geometry; Algebra; and Potpourri. ... Read more

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not what I thought
These are great except that many of them require a huge amount of background knowledge of numeracy that my adults don't have yet.I end up spending an entire math lesson on just one of the warm ups to fill in what's missing instead of just using them as a quick 5 minute warm-up.

They would be good for a higher level class, but not so great for an intermediate adult basic ed.

Basic Skills, not so basic activities
I really love most of the worksheet pages in this book.This is a book full of reproducible pages.The pages are great reinforcement pages to a middle/high school curriculum, but the worksheets are not dull and boring.They use higher level thinking skills and offer a little bit of interest by including secret messages and game-type worksheets, too.Highly recommend.Great homework pages.Easy to match up the skills with your curriculum since each page focuses on a single topic.

Great Curriculum Supplement
II find these math starters very helpful.I have been using them since the beginning of school and they have been a wonderful tool to help my students get back into the routine of school work.

Spicing Up the Topic
Works as a supplement to make students think in different ways. A must for students accustomed to rote problems such as those contained in the Saxon Series.

A great investment for any math teacher!
I use activities from this book almost every day.It can be used to reinforce current concepts or to review prior lessons.It covers a wide variety of topics and offers problems that are appropriate for a broad range of abilities (I teach 8th-grade math).It is a great way to engage students from the minute they walk in the door.The problems are great for challenging ALL of your students! ... Read more

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100 ready-to-use lessons with reproducible activity sheets to support any intermediate math program

Each section in this valuable resource features detailed lesson plans, objectives, activity sheets, materials, lists, answer keys, and related activities that cover the basic concepts of six essential areas of the 4—6 math curriculum:

• Symmetry--from turn and flip to bilateral symmetry and tessellation
• Geometry--lines, angles, polygons, congruent figures, and more
• Measurement--from time duration and temperature to distance on a map and scale drawing
• Probability--such as likelihood, chance, fair games, Pascal’s Triangle, and more
• Statistics--including picture, bar, line, and circle graphs and methods of data collection
• Algebra--including patterns, equality, function, and variables

The lessons, which can be taught to the entire class or to small groups of students, are divided into levels of knowledge: Beginning Level activities introduce mathematical content and vocabulary; Learning Level activities reinforce content already introduced with hands-on, concrete materials; and Challenging Level activities ask students to use the content knowledge in a different way.

Each activity includes specific teacher directions for presenting the information, followed by reproducible worksheets to copy for the classroom. There’s also a unique appendix of teacher resources, including pictures, grids, tables, graphs, figures, and much more. These can be reproduced for teacher and student use, made into overhead transparencies, and are incorporated into many of the lessons--which means no more hunting for resources. Everything you need for your intermediate math program is here in this one-stop guide. ... Read more

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Adorable Activities, Games, and Manipulatives Based on Favorite Nursery Rhymes--That Meet the NCTM Standards
Link reading and math!
Invite Mother Goose into the classroom to help make early math skills and concepts come alive for young learners! These easy and engaging hands-on activities let kids practice counting with Old Mother Hubbard and telling time with Wee Willie Winkie. ... Read more

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Just as cookies go with milk and peanut butter goes with jelly, math and cooking go hand in hand. This fun-filled book shows you exactly how.

With more than 60 activities and recipes to try, you can practice math while you cook! Get a handle on measurement, multiplication, division, fractions, percents, geometry, and more, while whipping up mouth-watering treats like scrumptious stromboli slices, chewy marshmallow-fudge squares, yummy chicken nuggets, and delicious butterscotch muffins.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced cook, you too can become a Math Chef. All activities and recipes are kid-tested and require only common ingredients and kitchen utensils. There's also a helpful list of safety rules, an explanation of basic cooking skills, and a complete nutrition guide. ... Read more

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More chef
This is a great book if you are teaching your child to cook. Most of the math is in measuring or doubling recipes and other useful things like that. Simple easy recipes.

Interesting
This is a little above my 9 year old but has some good exercises.I think it should indicate the level not just "for kids".Also it sort of jumps around with the activities, It would be easier to use if it was arranged to concentrate of one facet at a time before moving to a different topic.Sort of seesaws.All in all a good math tool and I'm glad to have it even though it takes a little more work on my part to plan the lessons.

good xmas present
My nephew wasn't thrilled when he opened this at Christmas, but he has read the whole thing and planned meals to cook already, so it's quite successful.

Great and fun way to introduce math topics
I am so excited to use this book with my son.I home school my children and this book presents math topics such as measurements, radius, division, fractions and many others in a practical way.Children see math used in everyday life, in the kitchen!It isn't the only method we will use to teach these topics, but it certainly will add to the enjoyment of learning them!

Average
I teach fourth and fifth grades, and I bought this book thinking that it would offer fun and different ways to incorporate math into everyday life activities like cooking and eating. I found it to be out of date, average at best and did not really require the use of very much math. It is really more of a children's cookbook than a math activity book. I was disappointed. ... Read more

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A fun, easy-to-implement collection of activities that give elementary and middle-school students a real understanding of key math concepts

Math is a difficult and abstract subject for many students, yet teachers need to make sure their students comprehend basic math concepts. This engaging activity book is a resource teachers can use to give students concrete understanding of the math behind the questions on most standardized tests, and includes information that will give students a firm grounding to work with more advanced math concepts.

• Contains over 100 activities that address topics like number sense, geometry, computation, problem solving, and logical thinking.
• Includes projects and activities that are correlated to National Math Education Standards
• Activities are presented in order of difficulty and address different learning styles

Math Wise! is a key resource for teachers who want to teach their students the fundamentals that drive math problems. ... Read more

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Great addition to my math resources!
The book is great and arrived in exactly the condition it was posted as.I would do business with them again!!

This one is the best!
Kids don't have to complete endless, boring worksheets to learn math!The activities in this book are fun, creative, and very effective at demonstrating all the math concepts from Kindergarten through 8th grade.Make bean sticks to learn about tens and hundreds.Make sugar cube buildings to practice geometry.Go on a chocolate chip hunt and graph the results.Go outside and use chalk to draw a giant number line, or take a power number walk!I highly recommend this book for teachers, homeschoolers, or parents who just want to prove to their kids that learning math can be fun. ... Read more

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These 15 standards-based activities with mystery-picture drawings really motivate students to practice key math skills. After students complete each skill sheet, they use their answers to follow step-by-step directions that guide them to draw a hidden picture. Since only correct answers will create the right picture, these activities are self-checking and make great independent work or homework. Topics include multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, solving multiple-step equations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and more.For use with Grades 6–8. ... Read more

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Is it GRADE 6 - 8?????
It would be really nice when they put "6-8" on the description if they would mention whether that is AGE six through eight or GRADE six through eight.

Author Review
As the author of this book, I would obviously rate it high! This book was designed to engage students in worthwhile activities in the area of math while focusing on not only math skills but also reading skills. With the push to increase literacy in both math and reading nationwide, I wanted to provide students with fun activities to make them want to learn! Many teachers, including myself, have used these activities in their classrooms. They work; they are fun; and they are self-checking! ... Read more